Well I got the two cd's from the Gentoo website. Did a reinstall same problem. It still want' to go on the intertnet when I emerge -k package_name.
I thought if I could get dialup going I could --fetchall everthing that way. Well I downloaded the files it said it needed for wvdial and pppconfig and copied them to /usr/portage/distfiles. I got both programs working but I only can dial out as root which not a good thing. I've added myself to the dialout group. Which should allow me to use wvdial or pon but I still can't dial out as a user. I've done a symbolic link to /dev/modem and still nothing. I think if you don't have a network connection Gentoo would not be a good choice. I would think follow the direction and in the Gentoo handbook and I should have been up and running. Something is wrong or not thought out. I know Debian does a lot of testing before it's put out. And Debian isn't the easies install. But at least I could install it form CD. I've been working on this for a week now. It's different than Debian and I'm getting acustomed to it. I don't know what to do, short of taking my box over to a friend with hight speed and then doing the install. Any suggestions? Possibly try installing it without a network connection and see if you run into the same problems. Tim _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
